HE.fifteenth day of July, With glistering spear and shield, A famous fight in Flanders Was foughten on the field: The most courageous officers The next was captain Norris, A valiant man was he: The other captain Turner, From field would never flee. * Peregrine Bertie, Lord Willoughbey of Eresby, died 1601. With fifteen hundred fighting men, Alas! there were no more, They fought with fourteen thousand then, Upon the bloody shore. Stand to it noble pikemen, And look you round about : And then the bloody enemy The wounded men on both sides fell Most piteous for to see, Yet nothing could the courage quell Of brave lord Willoughbèy. * A kind of gun. For seven hours to all men's view This fight endured sore, Until our men so feeble grew, That they could fight no more; And then upon dead horses Full savourly they ate, When they had fed so freely, For the favour they had found; The sharp steel-pointed arrows, Charge on most furiously; |